At 9:22 a.m. Tuesday morning, November 25, 1947, the body of Pfc. Jewell Bethel Jr., who lost his life in the Battle of the Belgian Bulge, arrived in Marion for reburial. Bethel was the third of Marion’s World War II dead to be returned home. Continue reading
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The following article was taken from a 1978 article written by Homer Butler and published in the Marion Daily Republican as follows. Additional notes were added for clarification.
Mrs. Ed Queen recently brought by some notebooks and documents handed down in her family and gave me an opportunity to learn at first hand something about the way of life the people who lived in the Marion area 125 years ago and more. Continue reading
According to turn of the century Marion resident and G.A.R. member and officer George W. Young in 1904, “There was also organized a Post at Union Grove Church and one at Marion in September and October, 1866, but the names and numbers have not been preserved.” Continue reading
National History and Formation
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army, US Navy, Marines and Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War. Continue reading
Verner Hicks was born in Woodlawn, Illinois on September 21, 1887 to Elizabeth (Trout) Hicks. Verner’s father died while he was at an early age, forcing Verner and his widowed mother “Lizzie” to seek the support and shelter of her brother James Trout, a farmer, living in Shiloh, Illinois which is where they were found in the 1900 census. Continue reading